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Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by JoshTriplett »

vitorbaptistaa wrote: post #158

https://shellshare.net I have migrated my wife's (then girlfriend) computer to Linux and sometimes I had to configure something on her computer (e.g. a printer). This ended up generating lots of back and forth on the phone with me telling her commands to write in the terminal, and she reading the output out loud. I wanted an easy way to see her terminal. So shellshare was born. Shellshare allows you to run a single c…

I like that it only allows watching, not interacting; that makes the security implications of someone obtaining the URL much less serious.

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by DanHulton »

Simple "product", though the utility is strictly limited: http://www.ipaidthemost.com/

Pay more than the person before you and you get... to be the person that paid the most. That's it. Well, you get a message on the front page along with your name, but still.

People tend to react positively to it, though I can't for the life of me figure out how to market it. I've tried Reddit/Facebook ads, mentioning on relevant Subreddits and such, and nothing has really taken off. Maybe someday I'll figure it out.

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Post by lavrton »

I have two small kids (2 and 5) and I am travaling a lot with my family around the world. I found out that it can be hard to find a good place to spend some time with kids. So I build a simple tool that helps me to find such places.

https://www.gowithkid.com/

This tool already helped me a lot.

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Post by TimLeland »

Weather Extension - https://weather.timleland.com/

I created a Weather extension using DarkSky.net api. I wanted a quick/accurate way to check the weather without ads. I have a Chrome, Firefox and Opera version. Let me know what you think!

Chrome version is most popular: https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/weather/iolcbmjhmp...

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Post by kislayverma »

http://rulette.org

This is a deceptively simple rule engine that I built for some side projects but has has since been picked up for many things that the big guns would have been overkill for. Clobbered the first version together in less than 5 days too!

Re: Ask HN: What simple tools or products are you most proud of making?

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Post by SteveNuts »

josho wrote: post #173
augustflanagan wrote: post #113

I built https://cronitor.io after having an important cron job fail silently for several days. When I mentioned this problem to a friend his first response was "we just had a major issue with cron failing silently at my work too". We decided to hack on it together, and we've since grown Cronitor from a tool built for our own needs into a small business with a couple hundred paying customers.

As someone about to write a cron job, what ways do you see Cron fail? My assumption is that cron is robust and reliable, it's the job script itself that may fail silently and need monitoring, yes?

The most common failure I've seen is when people forget to use full paths in cron.

bash instead of /bin/bash (or similar)

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Post by eptcyka »

joshwcomeau wrote: post #117
eptcyka wrote: post #84

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Is that a purely JS thing ? Surely such things would be best done by CSS? I am speaking as a person with 0 experience apping production level web apps.

So, the issue is that CSS transitions only handle CSS attribute changes. For example, if I apply a CSS attribute like `transform: translateY(100px);`, I can easily animate that using CSS. When an item's DOM position changes, there's no CSS change to animate. You can throw a `transition: 1s` on it, and nothing'll happen. This is the distinction between moving an item around on-screen, and removing/appending a DOM node…

Thanks for the insightful reply. This does bump up my morbid interest into web development, but I'm sure that will eventually fade away.

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Post by roryisok »

lavrton wrote: post #354

I have two small kids (2 and 5) and I am travaling a lot with my family around the world. I found out that it can be hard to find a good place to spend some time with kids. So I build a simple tool that helps me to find such places. https://www.gowithkid.com/ This tool already helped me a lot.

I've actually thought about making one of these!
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